User talk:VIS470

August 2020
Hello, I'm 331dot. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Ipsotek have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 11:17, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello VIS470. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:VIS470. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. 331dot (talk) 11:19, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I am not being indirectly or directly compensated for the edits made. The content was out of date. I will review the points mentioned above as I am new to Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.15.76.203 (talk) 12:37, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * If you are this user, remember to log in before posting. If you are an employee of Ipsotec, you are a paid editor; you do not have to be specifically asked to edit Wikipedia. Someone else stated that you are their colleague. 331dot (talk) 13:14, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Based on your comments, companies are prohibited from publishing their profile on Wikipedia and from sharing their value to society. I will no longer use Wikipedia and will encourage others to be very carefull before considering adding any comments to any articles.
 * Wikipedia does not have a single "profile" among its six million plus articles; that is a social media term. Wikipedia has articles typically written by independent editors, that summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about a subject, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of notability. Yes, we do not want businesses telling the world about themselves here, as that is not the mission of Wikipedia. You are free to do that on your own website.  331dot (talk) 08:00, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

If independent editors contact me, I will refer them to the terms and conditions of Wikipedia before they consider writing anything about Ipsotek. StaySafe.
 * If an independent editor contacts you, they would no longer be an independent editor. Wikipedia prefers as I stated that independent editors gather independent reliable sources, not contact the company or other subject themselves for information. 331dot (talk) 09:10, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

I will avoid and will encourage others to avoid any discussions regarding Wikipedia content with anyone. That way we avoid any potential points of conflict.